As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.
LAURYN HILLAs artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.
LAURYN HILLOnce you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you’ve just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.
LAURYN HILLLet optimists rule the world.
LAURYN HILLNobody’s going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?
LAURYN HILLI get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can’t hold me in these chains. I’ll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin’ my condition is the reason I must change
LAURYN HILLTo me that’s a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.
LAURYN HILLWhenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies.
LAURYN HILLI am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.
LAURYN HILLIt could all be so simple, but you’d rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars.
LAURYN HILLEveryday is another chance to get things right.
LAURYN HILLI am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don’t have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.
LAURYN HILLThe only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow.
LAURYN HILLFrom the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
LAURYN HILLA lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what’s in our hearts.
LAURYN HILLI consider myself a crayon. I may not be your favorite color but one day you’ll need me to complete your picture.
LAURYN HILLIf I’d known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.
LAURYN HILL